Jean-Pierre Jean-Donald said: “The entire house fell on us. People came to lift the rubble, and then we saw my wife. She had died.”

In Jeremie, farmer Andre Moise, 26, said: “We are lucky to be alive. But we have lost everything – our animals, our harvest, our documents. All we have is the clothes on our backs and the water from the coconuts.”

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TRAGEDY: Hundreds if thousands of people are in need of emergency aid right now

Haiti, one of the world’s poorest nations, had not fully recovered from the 2010 earthquake which killed tens of thousands.